2012.10.08 How the idea of this publication was born: At an
August 25, 2012 meeting of the National Space Society
International Committee in Lake Grove, IL outside Chicago, with Dave
Dunlop (committee chairman) and four others from the National Space
Society, we discussed how NSS could reach out internationally.

Dave and I feel strongly that the idea of reaping a boatload of foreign
paid memberships is a pipe dream - lower standards of living, high postage
for hard copy mailing, currency exchange rates which "punish those who
are outside North America" - and when it comes to forming chapters, laws
in some countries (India among them) which explicitly do not allow
formation of Indian chapters of non-Indian organizations.

The opening suggestion was to simply change the "I" in M3IQ (Moon
Miners' Manifesto India Quarterly) from India to International and email
this publication to the hundreds of foreign students in NSS email
database. But the India project is close to my heart, and I wanted to keep
the current title, organization, and feel . My counter offer was to use
90% of the same edited material in each new M3IQ and rearrange it by topic
rather than by space faring country, with a new masthead for distribution
via the NSS International list-serve.

I proposed to drop the MMM in the title and replace it with TTS - "To
the Stars" as that is the translation of the Latin name of NSS
hard copy quarterly, Ad Astra,
implying a connection to NSS (but with Moon Society co-sponsorship). TTSIQ
will publish the same reports that are in the concurrent Moon Miners'
Manifesto India Quarterly issue, but rearranged in these headings

Earth Orbit and Mission to Planet Earth

Cislunar Space and the Moon

Mars and the Asteroids

The rest of the Solar System

Starbound

Teachers & Students Section

To The Stars International Quarterly #1
was co-published with Moon Miners' Manifesto India Quarterly #16 on
October 8, 2012, with 2 access addresses, given above.

In addition to the National Space Society and the Moon Society (both
mutually affiliated since ISDC 2005), OpenLuna.org and the Space
Renaissance Initiative are listed as original co-sponsors. We are
hoping that SEDS, Students for the Exploration and Development of Space,
will join us.
The significance of this extended publication venture is that
collectively we will reach many more people around the world.

NSS is interested in growing its international membership.

The editor, however, is interested in enthusing more people all around the
world about the possibilities and potential of space exploration and
development, letting people elsewhere organize their own pro-active
societies. PK